Approve or reject Confluence pages from Slack

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Once your administrator has connected Slack and turned on Slack approval actions, each Confluence approval request arrives as a Slack message from Capable with Approve, Reject and Comment buttons. Pick one and add a note if you want (a comment needs text). Your answer is recorded on the page exactly as if you had answered in Confluence.

#Before you start

You need

Why

Slack connected for your Confluence site

See Set up Slack notifications for Confluence approvals.

Slack approval actions turned on

Without it, messages have no buttons.

A space that does not require an authenticator code

Slack cannot collect a code, so buttons are not offered there.

#Steps

  1. Open the approval request from Capable in Slack.

  2. Select Approve, Reject or Comment.

  3. Add a note if you want one. Comment needs text.

  4. Send your answer. Capable records it against the page version the message was about.

#What happens next

Once the request is decided, Capable rewrites the Slack message so the buttons disappear and it shows the outcome. Your answer appears in the page's approval history like any other.

#If it does not work

Message

What happened

This page changed since the request was sent

The page was edited, so the review restarted. Answer on the page.

You can no longer respond to this request

You were removed from the approver list, or lost access to the page.

This page was deleted, no approval is required

There is nothing left to approve.

Approvals are read-only for now

Your site is moving its approvals to Capable for Confluence. Answer on the page once the move is finished.

One click, and the review moves on.